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EACL-2006 will continue the tradition of providing a forum for student researchers who are investigating various areas related to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Participants will have the opportunity to get feedback both from a wide audience in general and from selected panelists -- experienced researchers who prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation.

The European Association of Computational Linguistics would like to invite student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. Original and unpublished research is invited on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to these topic areas:

The main conference will also feature tutorials, workshops and research notes. Further information on these is available at the main conference website, http://eacl06.itc.it/

2. Submission Requirements

Seeing that the main mission of the student workshop is to provide the participants with a wide audience and useful feedback, the emphasis of the workshop will be on work in progress. It will therefore normally be open to students who have settled on their thesis direction but who still have significant research left to do; those students in the final stages of their thesis are encouraged to submit to the main conference. Papers should clearly indicate directions for future research where appropriate. The papers can have more than one author, however all authors must be students.

A paper accepted for presentation at the Student Workshop cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this immediately after the title material on the first page. Students who have previously presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL student session will not be eligible to present again at the student session of any of these conferences. These students are instead encouraged to submit to the main conference.

3. Submission Procedure

Submissions should follow the two-column formal of EACL/ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's conference. They will be available at http://eacl06.itc.it/submission.htm. A description of the format will also be available in case you are unable to use the style files directly. Papers must conform to the official EACL 2006 style guidelines, and we reserve the right to reject submissions that do not conform to these styles including font size restrictions. Submissions should be in PDF format and must include all fonts, so that the paper will print (not just view) anywhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., ''We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'', should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as ''Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...''. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

Submission will be electronic using the paper submission software to be made available at http://eacl06.itc.it/submission.htm. The papers must be submitted no later than 11:59pm (23:59) GMT November 8, 2005.

The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by the Student Workshop Co-Chairs and a team of reviewers. Each submission will be matched with a mixed panel of student and senior researchers for review. The final acceptance decision will be based on the results of the review.

5. Student Sponsorships

The EACL has a limited number of student sponsorships available to student participants of the EACL 2006 main conference, the EACL 2006 poster/demo session and/or the EACL 2006 student session.

Priority is given to students from Eastern Europe and more generally, to students from countries with hard currency problems (within the geographical area covered by EACL).

A request for student sponsorship for EACL 2006 should include the following information:

The International Conference on Applied Linguistics will take place between April 1st – 2nd, 2006, in Chiayi County, Taiwan, hosted by the Department of Foreign Languages, National Chiayi University.

This conference gives scholars of applied linguistics to meet and exchange the results of their research activities, thus contributing to the understanding and discussion of the current research trends in applied linguistics in Taiwan and the other parts of the world.

MEETING DESCRIPTION: (Third Call for Papers)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED LINGUISTICS CALL FOR PAPERS THEME: GENERALIZATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS

The International Conference on Applied Linguistics will take place between April 1st - 2nd, 2006, in Chiayi County, Taiwan, hosted by the Department of Foreign Languages, National Chiayi University.

This conference gives scholars of applied linguistics to meet and exchange the results of their research activities, thus contributing to the understanding and discussion of the current research trends in applied linguistics in Taiwan and the other parts of the world.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Janet Holmes (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Managing English in the workplace: some socio-pragmatic considerations

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

We invite original, not presented/published works including, but not limited to, the following fields:

We invite abstracts of 20-minute talks, plus 10-minute discussion. Electronic submission is encouraged and preferred. Abstracts should be single-spaced and one-page long, including references and examples, in 12 Pt Times New Roman font, with all margins at 2.5 cm. Please email your abstract to dfl_con2004mail.ncyu.edu.tw

The abstract should be in a Word File, including the following information in order:

Title of Presentation: Name of Principal Presenter: Affiliation and Position: Equipment Needed for Presentation: Language used in Presentation: Email Address: Mailing Address: Fax Number: Telephone Number: Abstract of 250-300 words

If email is impossible, please send five hard copies of your abstracts (one with the name(s), affiliation(s) and email(s) of the author(s), and the other four anonymous) to: Department of Foreign Languages, National Chiayi University, 85, Wenlong, Minghsiung, Chiayi County, TAIWAN, 621.